SRR767 - Built Environment Study Tour

Unit details

Year

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 3: Study Tour 

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 3: Susan Ang
Prerequisite:

Students enrolled in D306 must have passed 24 credit points of study at levels 1, 2 & 3

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: SRD767
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

Study Tour: 3 x 2 hour pre-practical experience (study tour) seminar, 1 x 2 hour pre-practical experience (study tour) travel safe workshop, minimum one week of practical experience (study tour).

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Note:

Entry to this unit is via application and interview.  Students are required to fund their own travel and accommodation costs and activities undertaken in this unit. Please see SEBE Study Abroad or email short-term-abroad@deakin.edu.au for guidelines on enrolment.

 

Content

SRR767 is a study tour unit designed for the postgraduate student, which will draw on the area of the student’s study irrespective of their discipline or campus. The unit offers students collaborative, immersive and experiential learning opportunities. The study tour enables students to address topical challenges associated with real world problems and to engage first hand with design understanding of built environment within diverse contexts and cultures. Skills will include cross cultural communication, personal goal setting, self-management and organisational skills, reflection, analysis and design, and development and implementation of study tour project. The substantive outcomes will vary according to the stream of study and will include exhibition quality presentation of both individual and collective effort.

Learning Outcomes

ULO These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can:

Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)

ULO1

Plan, organise and undertake creative research surrounding context analysis that identifies issues pertaining to cultural social, and environmentally sustainable built environment problems to establish project inception that responds to socially and culturally diverse contexts of the study tour.

GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management
ULO2

Accumulate and document specialist knowledge of theories processes and practice using the frameworks of methodical research, creative activity to demonstrate capacity for reflection on actions of professional learning gained through the study tour experience.

GLO6: Self-management 
ULO3 Apply interpersonal and cross cultural skills to interact contribute and collaborate in team learning activities to create and produce a cohesive group presentation for exhibition that clearly communicate the collaborative intentions and outcomes of the study tour. GLO5: Problem solving
GLO7: Teamwork
ULO4 Formulate considered responses that demonstrate concern appreciation and reflection of social and cultural diversity in local and/or global contexts and the applications of ethical and sustainable approaches to identified context based problems. GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1
Context analysis report
Written report, 2,000 word maximum 20% Respective due dates for different study tours
Assessment 2
Study tour presentation
Collaborative written report, 5,000 word maximum, and 10-minute presentation 50% Respective due dates for different study tours
Assessment 3
Post study tour reflection
Electronic folio 40-page maximum 30% Respective due dates for different study tours

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning resource

The texts and reading list for SRR767 can be found via the University Library.

Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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